St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-30
DESPERATE STRIKERS
The Longshoremen and Their Friends
Resorting to Extreme Measures at
New York City.
They Will Now Call Out Street Railwa,
Employees, and Cause a Gen
eral Tie-Up.
some of the Leaders Arrested and
Held on charges of Con-
spiracy.
warning Against Non-Union Work.
ing Girls at Chicago--Labor
Notes.

NEW DIRK, Jan. 29.-The Brooklyn
iongShoremen are ali out yet. The strikers
stand about the docks smoking and watch
ing the few non-union men at work. There
mas been no trouble except jeering at the
non-unon men. A delegation of strikers
visited every saloon from Red Hook to Green
PoInt and warned the proprietors not to sell
liquor 20 the non-union men under penalty
OF boycott. A gang of Italians came over
from New York and were
ESCORTED BY POLICE
to the commercial stores. The men at
w likes coal yard refused to leave work
When ordered by the strikers. A
brick was thrown, but the police
restored order. At the Guion line Office in
Broadway it was said that the Wyoming
would be ready to sail by Tuesday. The
green hands were at work and by
the time the next vessel came III
they would be ready to handle
freight as quickly as old hands. At the
State line Office the chief clerk said that
the company was not embarrassed by the
strike for the reason that none of their
vessels would sail tor a week. At the
Cunard line office it was said they could
get all the men they wanted. The Gallia
had been
CoALED AND cARGoED
by non-union men. The vessel will sail
tomorrow At the Anchor line it was
said: 1--WE have all the men we want
about four hundred and fifty" At the
French Transalantique line the agent said
his company was not inconvenienced. 1t
was reported at noon to-day that the
Weighers in the custom house
had struck out of sympathy for
the lOngshoremen, and the rumor
caused some excitement among the officials.
1t transpired. however. that it was not the
weighers, but their laborers who had
struck. These men are paid by the gov
eminent. but do not come under the gen
eral designation of government officials. :"
They are simply longshoremen and have
been paid the same rates as other long
shoremen. The weighers' longshoremen
on the East river and the Brooklyn side
were the only men who joined the strikers
The men on the North river side are ex-
pected to follow. Auditor Blatchford. of
the custom house, said that the demands of
the men for 10 cents per hour extra, could
not be given except by authority of the sec
rotary at Washington. There were only a few
weighers and if they struck there were
plenty of men to jump in their places.
There seems to be strong probability
within the next tWenty-fOur hours that the
strike situation in this vicinity
WILL. BE COMPLICATED
by the tying up of almost every surface
railroad in the city. The step is said to be
in contemplation as an act of moral support
to the striking longshoremen and coal
handlers. The conductors on several OF
the roads declared to-day that the tie-up
was not only in contemplation, but had
been practically decided upon. Great re-
sentiment was caused among the drivers on
a particular line this morning by an order
from the superintendent taking away theii
stools. Heretofore it has been customary
for the drivers to drive sitting between
Forty-fourth and Eighty-siX streets. The
strikers said every man on the road would
strike unless the stools were restored, indie
pendent of the proposed movement to sup
port lOngshoremen. A meeting of employees
of the road is in progress tonight, and the
stools will be demanded from the superin-
tendent. II he refuses to give them, the
| order for the strike will be sent out. After
the San Marcos sailed this afternoon the
striking longshoremen were paid off at the
office of the Ward line. The company has
ADVERTISED FOR MEN
at 80 cents an hour. At the Clyde pier
aDoub one nuGuTeu anu HIy Germans. DO
hemians and Poles are working. The Cher
okee will be ready to sail on time. The
agent of the Mallory line states that the
steamer State of Texas will sail on time.
The longshoremen met tonight and had a
lively time. i man named Billy
Farrell was accused of working as a ''scab''
and was fired out of the hall bodily. The
Jones Milling company. patenteeS of the
Hungarian process of self-raising flour, have
mills in this city employing $500 men.
Their coal was exhausted ana to-day all
the hands were discharged until the strike
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